Primary-Care Physicians' Affective Orientation toward Their Patients

Hornung, Carlton A.; Massagli, Michael P.

doi:10.2307/2136480

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“…Finally, satisfaction with work environment refers to satisfaction with professional relations. From the literature, it is known that an inverse relationship between work load and other dimensions of satisfaction can be expected (Mechanic 1970;Hornung and Massagli 1979). Pearson zero-order correlations in the present study are consistent with this expectation (Table 2).…”

Section: Measurement Of Job Satisfactionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Organizational and Professional Predictors of Physician Satisfaction

Stevens

Philipsen

Diederiks

1992

Organization Studies

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In order to find out whether organizational characteristics and professional attitudes are positive predictors of the job satisfaction of physicians, an analysis is presented, based on a survey of 121 internists in 13 medical departments in Dutch university hospitals. The study indicates that formal structuring of work activities is a positive predictor of work environment satisfaction, whereas size is a negative predictor. Professional attitudes such as service orientation and craftsmanship are strong positive predictors of satisfaction with patient demand. The study also indicates that certification (being a medical specialist or not) positively relates to work load satisfaction.Controlling for certification reveals that the absence of a significant relationship between formal structuring of work activities and work load satisfaction is accounted for by a positive correlation for medical specialists and a negative one for residents in training to become specialists. This indicates the importance of a difference in hierarchical position for the relation between formal structuring of work activities and physician satisfaction. The results for hospital physicians are consistent with satisfaction studies in other settings: dependency on bureaucratic procedures is associated with dissatisfaction, while the advantages of bureaucracy — the possibility of creating routines and procedures to limit role ambiguity — are conducive to satisfaction.

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Section: Measurement Of Job Satisfactionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Organizational and Professional Predictors of Physician Satisfaction

Stevens

Philipsen

Diederiks

1992

Organization Studies

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“…Negative attitudes displayed by rehabilitation personnel were reported by Penderson & Carleson (1981) and Chubon (1982). There are several other studies that have indicated the presence of negative feelings towards patients by doctors and medical students (Cartwright 1967; Ford 1967; Dungal 1978; Hornung 1979).…”

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The effect of medical education on the attitudes of medical students towards disabled people

Duckworth

1988

Medical Education

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The negative attitudes of society towards disability and the resulting prejudicial behaviour affects the lives of disabled people. One of the declared aims of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Southampton is to improve attitudes. Hence, an attempt has been made to assess differences in the attitudes held by first- and fourth-year medical students, senior house officers and members of the general public towards disabled people. The measurement instrument used was the 'Attitudes Towards Disabled Persons (ATDP) Scale'. The total number of subjects in the survey was 428, of whom 263 (61%) responded. No significant differences were found between the attitudes of the four groups studied. However, a subpopulation of subjects who agreed with the statement that 'Disabled people cause more problems to doctors than non-disabled people' had attitudes which were significantly more negative.

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“…The results of these surveys indicated that the critical factors from the patient's perspective include the dentist's personality, his ability to reduce fear and anxiety, and the dentist's technical ability. Hornung and Massagli (15) concluded that patients have two main goals in seeking health care services -that of obtaining an accurate diagnosis and competent; appropriate treatment and secondly of receiving relief of the fear and anxiety which accompanies being ill. The patient is rarely able to determine the professional's technical competence.…”

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Dentists Perception of their Patients in Malaysia

Razak

1995

ADUM

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A postal questionnaire concerning the Malaysian dentists' attitudes of their patients yielded a 73;1% response rate. The results of this study indicated that a majorityof dentists felt that patients had more negative than positive attributes. Private practitioners attributed more negative traits to their patients than their public sector colleaques.About 88% of dentistsindicated that the mostnegativepatientattributewas fearofpain. Fearof pain was perceivedto be strongerthan fear of the dentist (62.2%). likewise the patients' inabilityto seektreatmentsoonenough (78.4%), to comefor regular check-up(72.7%) and to followadviceon personaloral hygiene(70.1 %) were worrisome.

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Primary-Care Physicians' Affective Orientation toward Their Patients

Cited by 24 publications

References 16 publications

Organizational and Professional Predictors of Physician Satisfaction

Organizational and Professional Predictors of Physician Satisfaction

The effect of medical education on the attitudes of medical students towards disabled people

Dentists Perception of their Patients in Malaysia

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